Parse Error

[pdenlinger]

My editor is returning this error in my code: Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING

What does this mean?

Is there a place I can go to look up what these error codes in plain English?

Thank you.

[Jessica]

That is english :-P

Post the lines around where the error is, and we can help you find it.

It means you left some php syntax out, such as forgetting to close a string or end a line with ;, etc.

[pdenlinger]

/* Display the form. */
print '<form action="register.php" method="post"><p>';

print 'Username: <input type="text" name="username" size="20" value="' . $_POST['username'] . '" />
<br />';

[magic2goodil]

me thinks you need to escape you " so they read \"

[Jessica]

No, the whole string is single quoted, so they're fine.
I don't see any errors. Post more of the code and use the code tag (The #)

[magic2goodil]

[quote author=jesirose link=topic=121729.msg501036#msg501036 date=1168398908]
No, the whole string is single quoted, so they're fine.
I don't see any errors. Post more of the code and use the code tag (The #)
[/quote]

*pouts*

[pdenlinger]

Hmmm....

I'm inserting a screenshot of the error message from my editor; hope this helps.

[img]http://file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Paul/Desktop/ErrorMessage.png[/img]

[genericnumber1]

We'd rather see more code, you already told us what the error is ;)

[Jessica]

Yeah...Can you post the 10 lines surrounding the line the error points to?

[DarkendSoul]

Umm actually i think the error is right there... try this instead

[code]<?php
/* Display the form. */
print "<form action='register.php' method='post'><p>";

print "Username: <input type='text' name='username' size='20' value='{$_POST['username']}' />

";
?>[/code]

Before when $_POST['username'] was called i thought the first ' is where to start normal echoing, leaving just $_POST[ in php.

[genericnumber1]

No idea what you said darkened, my guess is a different culprit

[Jessica]

His first two lines are fine, there isn't an error in there.

[DarkendSoul]

Yeah i just checked... :\

Anywho bed time.

Jesi r robot girl. she doesnt need sleep

[pdenlinger]

I have posted more lines of code surrounding the culprit area.

---------------------------------------------------

if (!problem) {/* If there weren't any problems... */

print '<p>You are now registered!<br />Okay, you are not really registered but...</p>';

} else { /* Forgot a field. */

print '<p>Please try again!</p>;'


/* End of handle form IF. */

/* Display the form. */
print '<form action="register.php" method="post"><p>';

print 'Username: <input type="text" name="username" size="20" value="' . $_POST['username'] . ' " />
<br />';
Last name: <input type="text" name="last_name" size="20" value="' . $_POST['last_name'] . ' " />
<br />';
Email address: <input type="text" name="username" size="20" value="' . $_POST['email'] . ' " />
<br />';

print 'Password: <input type="password" name="password1" size="20" /><br />
Confirm Password: <input type="password" name="password2" size="20" /><br />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Register!" /></p>
</form>';

[kenrbnsn]

Please edit your post and put the [nobbc][code] tag at the start and the [/code] tag at the end. This will make your code much easier to read. [/nobbc]

Ken

[Jessica]

if (!problem) {/* If there weren't any problems... */

you're missing a $ sign.
Use the code tags, and get an editor which does syntax highlighting.

[kenrbnsn]

You don't start these lines with either "print" or "echo":
[code]<?php
Last name: <input type="text"  name="last_name" size="20" value="' . $_POST['last_name'] . ' " />

';
Email address: <input type="text"  name="username" size="20" value="' . $_POST['email'] . ' " />

';
?>[/code]

Ken

[Jessica]

That too. Good eye Ken!

[pdenlinger]

OK, here is the whole body of code with beginning and ending [code] tags.

Thank you.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

[code]
<?php // Script 8.9 - register.php
// This page lets people register for the site (sort of).

// Address error handling.
ini_set ('display_errors', 1);
error_reporting (E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);

// Set the page title and include the header file.
define ('TITLE', 'Register');
require ('templates/header.html');

// Basic HTML formatting stuff.
print '<div id="leftcontent">
<h1>Registration Form</h1>
<p>Register so that you can take advantage of certain features like this, that, and the other thing.</p>';

// Check if the form has been submitted.
if ( isset ($_POST['submit'])) {

$problem = FALSE; // No problems so far.

// Check for each value.
if (empty ($_POST['username'])) {
$problem = TRUE;
print '<p>Please enter a username!</p>';
}

if (empty ($_POST['first_name'])) {
$problem = TRUE;
print '<p>Please enter your first name!</p>';
}

if (empty ($_POST['last_name'])) {
$problem = TRUE;
print '<p>Please enter your last name!</p>';
}

if (empty ($_POST['email'])) {
$problem = TRUE;
print '<p>Please enter your email address!</p>';
}

if (empty ($_POST['password1'])) {
$problem = TRUE;
print '<p>Please enter a password!</p>';
}

if ($_POST['password1'] != $_POST['password2']) {
$problem = TRUE;
print '<p>Your password did not match your confirmed password!</p>';
}

if (!$problem) { // If there weren't any problems...

print '<p>You are now registered!<br />Okay, you are not really registered but...</p>';

} else { // Forgot a field.

print '<p>Please try again!</p>';

}

} // End of handle form IF.

// Display the form.
print '<form action="register.php" method="post"><p>';

print 'Username: <input type="text" name="username" size="20" value="' . $_POST['username'] . '" /><br />';

print 'First Name: <input type="text" name="first_name" size="20" value="' . $_POST['first_name'] . '" /><br />
Last Name: <input type="text" name="last_name" size="20" value="' . $_POST['last_name'] . '" /><br />
Email Address: <input type="text" name="email" size="20" value="' . $_POST['email'] . '" /><br />';

print 'Password: <input type="password" name="password1" size="20" /><br />
Confirm Password: <input type="password" name="password2" size="20" /><br />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Register!" /></p>
</form>';

// Complete the HTML formatting stuff.
print '</div>';

require ('templates/footer.html'); // Need the footer.
?>
[/code][/code]

[Jessica]

Is there still a problem? Can you post the error with the line number?
I don't see anything. [s]I thought true and false were case sensitive, but maybe not. I'll check.[/s] Nope, all looks fine to me.

[pdenlinger]

Uploaded the code to my web server and am still getting the same error message on line 63 in my editor, and on the web server. The error reads "Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_PRINT in register.php on line 63"

Here is line 63:
[code]
print '<form action="register.php" method="post"><p>';   
[/code]

[kenrbnsn]

Are you sure that the source you posted here and the code you're getting the error in are the same? I took your code, put it on my server and commented out the two requires. No errors were display and the form was displayed. Can you post the source for the two required files?

Ken

[pdenlinger]

Here is the code for the header file:
[code]
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>
<?php //Print the page title.
if (defined('TITLE')) { //Is the title defined?
print TITLE;
} else { //The title is not defined.
print 'Elliott Smith Fan Club';
}
?>
</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;
background: #9F9;
}

#leftcontent {
float:left;
width:67%;
background:#fff;
border-right:2px solid #000;
border-bottom:2px solid #000;
margin-right:15px;
padding-bottom:20px;
}

p,h1,pre {
margin:0px 30px 10px 30px;
}

h1 {
font-size:14px;
padding-top:10px;
}

#rightcontent p {
font-size:14px;
margin-left:0px;
}

.linkback {  position: absolute; width: 300px;  height: 10px;  right: 0;  top: 0;  z-index:1999; font: normal normal normal 10pt arial}.linkbacktitle {  background:#333399; cursor:move; color:white; padding: 2px; font-weight: bold}.linkbackinner {  border:1px solid #06060a;  background:#efefff;  text-align: left;  opacity:0.85; }.linkbackinner ul { list-style-type: circle ; margin-left: 1px; padding-left: 15px}.linkbackinner li { margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px; margin-left: 1px; color: gray;  }.linkbackinner a:link {  color: #0000DD;  }.linkbackinner a:visited {  color: #AF00AF;  }.linkbackinner a:hover {  background-color: #ffcc99;}


</style>
</head>
<body>
<!-- BEGIN CHANGEABLE CONTENT. -->
</body></html>
[/code]

Here is the code for the footer file:
[code]
<!-- END CHANGEABLE CONTENT. -->
<div id="rightcontent">
<h1>Navigation</h1>
<p>
<a href="index.php">Home</a><br />
<a href="albums.php">Discography</a><br />
<a href="login.php">Login</a><br />
<a href="register.php">Register</a><br />
</p>

<p><em>
<?php
print date ('g:i a l F j' );
?>
</em></p>
</div>
<!-- Script 8.7 - footer.htm  (Second version after Script 8.3-->
</body>
</html>
[/code]